Descriptive estimands, causal estimands, and avoiding the jungle of adjusted associations ‘in between’

2026/02/24 by Moritz Oberndorfer, Annie Herbert, S Vittal Katikireddi +1 · 1 voice
Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Advanced Causal Inference Techniques #Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research #Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference

paper · pdf · doi:10.1136/jech-2026-226120

openalex publication_date 2026/02/24 · openalex created_date 2026/02/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

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